Water Thief's!

Tristan and I decided to go down to the block yesterday as Janine has been speaking about her lost pegs and it got my thinking, do we have Pegs?? and if we do where are they?? Well anyway once we got down there we did find our pegs with a little bit of searching! But when we first arrived, we had a lil surprise hose connected to our  new taps!!! Well i was not very happy it seems that the couple of house across the rd decided that since we have taps on our block why not use them?? Tristan check the water meter which read 1035!!!! So after a little discussion we decide to
1) Take the handle off
but knowing tradies (Tristan being one him self) I didn't think that this would stop them they would prob just find a way around it.

2) Off to bunnings to buy a padlock
Tristan turned the water off and we padlocked it so unless they cut our padlock which we are hoping they don't do, they have no way to steal our water now

So what does everyone think?? Will this work?? Are we actually aloud to do this even tho it is ours?? and do you think it will actually stop them??

I plan on getting in contact with Kate(csc) tomorrow morning to let her no what we have done, and also the padlock we brought is a  number padlock with a code, so if metricon go out there all they need to do is have the code and they can unlock i will give the numbers to Kate tomorrow!

We have TAPS!!!!

We went down to the block yesterday and found a nice lil surprise on our block, we have been tapped, and the first in our stage too, i think this is a good sign!!!

                                                                 Our Beautiful Taps

WE HAVE A DATE!!!

I finally got the call we have been waiting for at 11am this morning!!!

Are you ready for it................... 24th of March is our Settlement date, this date is also shared by Tristan and my 3yr Anniversary as well, what a great present!!! I cant stop smiling!!

This beautiful block will finally be Ours!!

Sorry guys just a bit Excited here!!!

Registration............ Soon..

This last month has felt like years, endless waiting!! But on Monday i had a long awaited call from the Conveyancer letting me know that the title office now has the registration and should only take 7 days to register, fingers crossed we will be first time Land owners and settle in the coming weeks!! On the builders side of things we are nearly completely ready for our build to start just have to sign off on our finally Plans which should be ready next week..... Its very exciting to see all our fellow Avenue bloggers starting there build process, i just cant wait!!

In other news Tristan and I went for a drive down to the estate last Saturday to see the block and visit the new Metricon display, we were a Lil bit excited to see that this display is very similar to our colour choices in so many ways, It was the first time that we have seen our tiles 600x600 porcelain white tiles done in a house and also the kitchen colour choices are very similar, we were really happy to see so many of our choices all together, helpfully ours will just as good!! So if anyone goes into the newest Metricon display have a look at the tiles they are beautiful, very happy with this decision of ours!!

Overlay No More..

I just spoke to Roslyn at the Casey Council and the Overlay has been removed :) The Avenue have been able to get Melbourne Water to remove the overlay, and now i cant remove the smile off my face :)
All we need now is for a land to title and we will be on our way, i hope!! Positive thinking guys!!

Our kitchen (as close as i can find to the same layout)

Ok guys because our house does not have a display and we change our layout a bit, its a bit hard to find pics but this is as close as i can get, the only difference being that the dinning table is going to be directly in front of this photo (in front of the island and there will be an bi-part timber doors to the right where there table is in this kitchen) everything else is very similar, same pantry, fridge space same( except there is a wine rack instead of a cupboard above the fridge) same island and cupboards and oven :)

Thanks Tonia and Shayne I'm very grateful to be able to get every ones opinion and it does help me alot, When i in visioned my kitchen i did see the island as one whole colour.

Reinsey i don't have pics of different coloured islands because most photos are like the one above and you can not see the other side of the island which is what i am confused about it, It is the oppitsite side of the island to the one you can see in this photo that i am talking about. I think that there are pros and cons for both in having the white or ebony maccassa.

Sandrine i looked at your kitchen its beautiful, and you have very similar colour choices to us, only thing is that you have waterfall edges on the island and ours is just the side of the island just wrapped around.

Debra, our tiles are 600x600 porcelain white, bench top is ospray ceaser stone, splash back Antarctica (white on white) so we already have ALOT of white in the house ohh and the walls are white in saying that we did want this look so we can bring the colour in with furniture ect.

What to do????

To many decisions??

I need your help guys?? I have a dilemma, recently we have changed some of our colour choices in the kitchen and today i got the colour schedule back, Overhead cabinets gloss white, lower cabinets gloss white, fridge space and wine rack above the fridge Ebony Maccassa (Dark wood grain) and the kitchen island Ebony Maccassa but the schedule was slightly different in that the island bench is Ebony Maccassa but instead of the front (where the draws are and where the microwave and dish washer will be) it said Gloss white so i rang my colour lady and said we must of made a mistake and i pointed this out to her, and she said that she did this as she thought that this is what i wanted and that she had seen quite a few display houses done this way and this got me wondering do i want it this way? Or do i want the whole kitchen island the one colour?? Now i don't know, what do you guys think?